Clipboard in VBA disappears after few steps - excel

Question

I have a code that should restore range formatting after applying few step.
Sub MyCode()
Sheets("My sheet").ListObjects("My Table").DataBodyRange.Copy
...
refreshing connection and calling function that applies stored formulas to table columns
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Sheets("My sheet").[A10].PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteFormats
End sub
I got error PasteSpecial method on range failed
If I paste immediately, it works.
Is it possible to save range formatting as variable?

Answer 1

Here is an example on how to use variables to store the copy method and use it later. You can set the range to a variable CopyRange and use CopyRange.Copy to store it and later you can use it as the range was stored in the CopyRange and not lost along the way due to other processes running down the line.
Option Explicit
Sub CopyDataToTemplate()
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim srcWB As Workbook
Dim destWB As Workbook
Dim srcWS As Worksheet
Dim destWS As Worksheet
Dim CopyRange As Variant
Dim i As Long, j As Long
Dim srcLRow As Long, destLRow As Long
Set destWB = Excel.Workbooks("DOLine_example.xlsx")
Set srcWB = ActiveWorkbook
Set srcWS = srcWB.ActiveSheet
Set destWS = destWB.Sheets("DOLine")
srcLRow = srcWS.Cells(srcWS.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row
destLRow = destWS.Cells(destWS.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
'loop through column 1 to 19
For i = 1 To 19
For j = 1 To 13
'loop through columns
If destWS.Cells(3, i).value = srcWS.Cells(1, j).value Then
' Copy column B to Column D as written in your code above
Set CopyRange = srcWS.Range(Cells(2, j), Cells(srcLRow, j))
CopyRange.Copy
' paste columns from one wb to Columns to another wb
destWS.Cells(destLRow, i).PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteAll, Transpose:=False
Application.CutCopyMode = False
End If
Next j
Next i
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
MsgBox "Process completed!", vbInformation
End Sub